Milwaukee, Wisconsin Groppi center Father Groppi and children from Saint Boniface school join the public school boycott. He was ordered out of the school boycott by Bishop Athieliski (sp?) who refused to allow any Catholic facilities to be used...

Clips featuring silent footage of members of Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) protesting busing and de facto segregation on June 3-4 1965. The location is most likely Keefe Avenue Elementary School. Clergy, including Father...

News flip clips showing scenes from a Milwaukee United School Integration Committee and Congress of Racial Equality demonstration against the construction of MacDowell School on December 8 1965. The slips show a man being arrested, demonstrators...

Father Groppi's annotation, "In 1966, Father Groppi and the NAACP Youth Council conducted demonstations at the all-white Milwaukee Eagles Club. The National Guard was called out in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin because of the march. About 15 judges belong...

News film clips of scenes from the second fair housing march, August 29, 1967. Features footage of demonstrators crossing the 16th Street Viaduct, counter-demonstrators protesting along the marchers’ route, and police accompanying the marchers,...

News film clips of Mayor Meier at a press conference discussing the open housing march of August, 28, 1967. In the first clip he states that his office has been told that civil rights leaders in the city have tried unsuccessfully to dissuade Father...

News film clips of Father James Groppi the day after the first open housing march across the 16th Street bridge on August 28 1967. The first clip has Groppi describing the event as a "white riot" and asking Mayor Meier to provide better protection...

Father Groppi's annotation, "The Milwaukee police burning the Freedom House in the summer of 1967. The neighborhood was tear gassed and young people had to flee from the house." This image appeared on the front page of the Milwaukee Sentinel...

Clips of Father Groppi, Prentice McKinney, and the Youth Council speaking to reporters at the burned out Freedom House. During the interview, Father Groppi claims that the police started the fire and affirms the rights of the activists to...

News film clips of a press conference with Milwaukee County Supervisor Richard Nowakowski, August 30, 1967. Nowakowski takes questions from the media, discussing the marches, the counter-demonstrations, and Father Groppi.